I'm sorry, but I love Starbucks. Before they came to St. Louis (in the summer of 1998), we had a limited, snooty, "fuck you! We're hip!" scene, which Starbucks brought down to earth. For a while, a coffee craze hit teens in their last couple of years of high school, which spawned a few coffee houses (including my beloved SoHo). They're all gone now.
Shit...1995. 2 in the morning on a hot June night...or pretty much almost every night during that summer: Sitting at Denny's, sipping coffee, eating omelettes. Those were the days...
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